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From Israeli sitcoms to HBO hits: The best streaming picks for Purim

TV Time: Purim is coming up, what should you watch to get in the spirit?

|ByHANNAH BROWN
KEREN MOR as Kochava schemes with butcher Nissim, played by Yaniv Swissa.
Still from A Burning Man

'A Burning Man' tells the moving story of a father’s dilemma about his soldier son

No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, there is no parent of a child in the army who hasn’t felt the fear portrayed in the film at one time or another.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Poster for Guns & Moses

Salvador Litvak brings his film 'Guns & Moses' to Israel

Speaking about how he had decided to make the film, he said, “My wife, Nina, and I set out to make a Jewish mystery thriller in a world that Hollywood never depicts on film - our world."

|ByHANNAH BROWN
The BBC logo outside the BBC Broadcasting House. November 15, 2025.

BBC apologizes for not censoring racial slur shouted at Bafta ceremony by guest with Tourette's

"We apologise that this was not edited out prior to broadcast, and it will now be removed from the version on BBC iPlayer," said a spokesperson of the BBC.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

TV Time: 'Freakier Friday' is funny, 'Nutuk' is dramatic and 'Pluribus' is not worth watching

Channel 12 drama series, 'Nutuk', continues to keep tension high while Apple TV's 'Pluribus' falls flat despite rapturous reviews.

NOVEMBER 14, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
JAMIE LEE CURTIS, left, and Lindsay Lohan in ‘Freakier Friday.’

Jerusalem highlights: November 14-20

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

NOVEMBER 14, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Micha Ullman’s ‘Water’ at Zion Square

Pope Leo names Italian Holocaust film ‘Life Is Beautiful’ as one of his 4 favorites of all time

Pope Leo did not elaborate on his reasons for the selections in the truncated video posted by Variety announcing a convening of filmmakers at the Vatican that will begin Saturday. 

NOVEMBER 12, 2025ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Pope Leo XIV (left) picked Roberto Benigni's Holocaust film "Life is Beautiful" as one of his all-time favorites.

Stellan Skarsgård bounces back from stroke for heartfelt performance in ‘Sentimental Value’

The Swedish actor was then in the middle of the most visible run of his half-century in film and TV when the medical crisis occured.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByJOSH ROTTENBERG/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD, star of ‘Sentimental Value,’ poses during the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Jerusalem highlights: October 31-November 6

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

OCTOBER 31, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Adraba Bookstore

French film starring Karim Leklou features fine acting in an underwhelming film - review

The film, which was directed by the brother directing duo Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, is long on literary narration and gorgeous rustic scenery.

OCTOBER 19, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
A scene from "Jim's Story."

Jerusalem highlights: October 17-23

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

OCTOBER 17, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN
La Sonnambula

New series by Hagai Levi, ‘Etty,’ to open at Cinema South Film Festival 

“I think this story is deeply relevant to the events that have taken place, and continue to take place, in southern Israel. I hope it may offer viewers some inspiration and comfort.”

OCTOBER 16, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
A SHOT from Haggai Levy’s ‘Etty.’

On Paramount+, Apple TV, HBO and more, Oct. 7 emerges as cinematic subgenre

As the shockwaves of Oct. 7 spread around the world, another crop of films has examined how the attacks reverberated across the Jewish Diaspora and within movements for and against Israel’s war.

OCTOBER 7, 2025ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
The We Will Dance Again documentary, available for streaming on Paramount+

Scarlett Johansson and the Jews: Top star’s directorial debut is Holocaust survivors film

When Scarlett Johansson first read Tory Kamen’s script, she told the Hollywood news site Deadline in an interview, 'I cried, and that almost never happens.' 

OCTOBER 7, 2025ByMARION FISCHEL
DIRECTOR SCARLETT JOHANSSON stands on the red carpet with ‘Eleanor the Great’ cast members June Squibb (center) and Erin Kellyman at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in May 2025.